Trump has openly said he plans on there being no more elections.

I’d never vote for any republican for any reason. But I’d also never vote for anyone who enables war crimes. So I left my vote for president blank when I filled out the rest of the ballot. And then my state went for Harris anyway. But I hear I am the worst person in the rworld and this whole thing is because of me.

Its all a big joke.

I had voted straight blue my whole life and thats over. For me and a lot of people I think. THAT is a lasting problem. The base just isnt solid anymore. Too much taking it for granted. Any “big tent” big enough to maximize vacuuming up every possible donor’s check is going to end up being too constrained and untrusted to effect any change at all-- because we cant piss off any future segment of donors. And so we all end up aiding war crimes. The tent is so big and donor centric that it’s unable to serve its constituents.

One does not just happen to accidentally shoot a CEO of a firm like Blackstone.

Well, lets talk about that, at work, on the taxpayers dime. I’ll set us up an 8 hour meeting to go over that on monday. We can continue to meet on this until we get it all sorted.

He killed a cartoonishly evil blackstone CEO. Seems to have been the motive.

Why not grant them the visa and arrest them when their foot touches dutch soil? It would also stoke fear of travel in general from Israel. Seems like the ministers did Israel a favor with this move.

This is a defensive system, of course it is useful during war time but it is still a defensive system.

And there you go again, funding zionism.

While pretending Omar and the entire DSA misunderstood what this was about, but you do.

the MOU is about a yearly aid package, that MTG (who I hate) wanted to add an amendment to cut.

Thats a no brainer choice. Unless AOC or someone can show me a poison pill in that ammendment, its straightforward and simple to pick the only ethical and progressive vote.
And AOC failed to pick it for some reason. It wasnt complicated.

Omar made the right choice and called out AOC for failing to. And rightly so. DSA called AOC out as well. This is simple math. Lets do the simple math and stop pretending its calculus.

Do we all want to be funding weapons for Israel or do we not? That was the choice.

Are you claiming Omar and the DSA are just… wrong? to call out AOC? https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/aoc-israel-ilhan-omar-iron-dome-rcna220394

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/us/politics/aoc-dsa-endorsement.html

Her distinction between offensive and defensive weapons is meaningless.

1. its morally and ethically wrong to aid Israel in light of their actions.
2. The US has no obligation to send them any weapons, regardless of the use case. Her trying to parse out defensive vs offensive is a manipulation and a shallow sales job.
3. US gov employees are explicitly forbidden by US law from lending any aid whatsoever to any country committed war crimes.
4. The cost of supporting Israel is the unravelling of the entire western world order. Its not just the US. And for what, some pitiful bribes? Israel is spending the very concept of democracy so they can do a land grab and feel badass about killing some helpless people. And AOC wants to help… for some campaign donations, I assume? Or is it just to keep the powerful zionist lobby off her back… what was her price for her betraying what used to be her principles? And now that she has done it and DSA has booted her, what role does she even play anymore?

IF that serves the state of Israel. Schumer: “My job is to keep the left pro-Israel.”

ADL is a racist Israeli lobbying organization that supports genocidal violence. They work to undermine civili rights and free speech in thne US. Who cares what they say or think-- and anyone who is a member should be doxed and boycotted in every way possible. They are enemies of the US people.

“Rock bottom” implies the dems wont keep going down in favorability. I dunno about that. I dont see the DNC changing much of anything, and they are circling to attack Mamdani which will be lower their popularity even more.

Wont stop the DNC from using all their abilities to fight the left in their own party as their job #1. The old guard dems are hopeless.

She voted against reduced funding for weapons for Israel because she would have been voting FOR funds for weapons for Israel.

Thats not what I read about what she claimed were her motivations. She said she voted against it because she was in favor of giving them defensive weapons, but not offensive ones. As if the money to buy weapons wasnt easily moved from one to the other. Weapons are weapons.

Everyone please downvote everything from rt.com. Rule 1 seems to say if they get enough downvotes they will be removed.

I see no problem with this. Do Israelis next.

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AOC is trying to whip up funds for when she runs next election. I’m not too thrilled that she voted against cutting funds for Israel weapons. What was she thinking. So dumb, and felt like a betrayal. And in the time since as many of her allies urged her to own up to what she did to get her support back, she chose not to. So something is keeping her quiet. Usually in the US politics thats money. I’d be curious if anyone else has other theories. I really liked her as a presidential candidate, before this.

Not that I care much, I wonder how many days she will last on the street. So many people want her gone.

we know. And no US political party will change anything. Biden increased police funding when it was brought up, and Trump just funneled more of our money to “law enforcement” than most countries spend on their entire defense budgets. We spend 1.5 trillion per year on unaccountable law enforcement thugs now.